Did you see the Green Man at Syracuse's Tipp Hill Shamrock Run?

Courtesy of Ray Holt, Lake Effect Run ClubThe Green Man, (right) is Andrew Grant, 23, of Liverpool. Courtesy of Ray Holt, Lake Effect Run ClubAndrew Grant, 23, of Liverpool bought a Green Man suit on line to wear to a Buffalo Bills game last fall. He thought it was the perfect attire for Syracuse's Shamrock Run.It may not always be sunny in Syracuse, but Central New York's own Green Man turned out for the annual Shamrock Run last weekend, which, as it turned out, was brisk (30s) and bright.

If you saw him lining up at the start, zipping past you up Coleridge Avenue, or hanging at Nibsy's Pub afterward, inevitably you asked yourself (if not him directly:) How does he breathe? How does he see? And, who is this guy?

He is Andrew Grant, 23, of Liverpool, who came upon the Green Man suit he and some pals bought to wear to a Buffalo Bills game last fall and thought "you know what? This would be the perfect thing to wear for the Shamrock." (Here's a video of some other Green Men at a Nashville Predators game.)

Courtesy of Ray Holt, Lake Effect Run ClubAndrew Grant, 23, of Liverpool knew he would be able to drink in his Green Man suit. parents snapped pictures with him thought he was somehow related to Spiderman.

Grant meant to run in the thin Spandex suit before the race on March 6, but he didn't get the chance. So he trusted the Web site advertising claim that he would be able to breathe and drink through the head-to-toe suit.

And he could.

Pretty much.

"I was determined not to take the face off," he admits. Around mile No. 3, he was tempted to pull his head out because it was so stuffy and moist, like wearing a Halloween mask. His breathing was "a little labor intensive," he says, like breathing at elevation.

As for visibility, the sun's glare didn't help.

Gary Walts / The Post-StandardAndrew Grant of Liverpool was 22 in 2009 when he ran the Tipp Hill Shamrock Run with a frizzy green wig.

"It's how you would expect things to be, looking through a stocking. There were times when I couldn't see," Grant says, apologizing for the couple of people he may have stumbled over.